Washington CNN —
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has long been a pointed critic of former President Donald Trump’s conduct on a January 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump told numerous lies about supposed election fraud and pressured Raffensperger to somehow “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in Georgia in the 2020 election.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” though, Trump claimed Raffensperger had recently declared Trump’s conduct on the call perfectly acceptable.
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“That was a phone call made in front of, I guess seven or eight lawyers. Brad Raffensperger, the head – who, by the way, last week said I didn’t do anything wrong,” Trump said. “He said, ‘That was a negotiation.’ Brad Raffensperger, who I was dealing with, I appreciate that he said that. But he said last week, I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Trump repeated moments later that Raffensperger “last week said I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Trump’s lie-filled efforts to pressure Raffensperger on the call were invoked in both Trump’s indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, over his efforts to subvert the election results in the state and his federal indictment over his broader election subversion efforts around the country. If Raffensperger had suddenly begun defending Trump’s conduct on the call, that would be significant political and legal news.
But Raffensperger didn’t actually do that.
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